Loose Women

I don't think Trisha ended that abruptly - from memory there was a long running dispute relating to Trisha wanting her own production company to produce the show. And then when she moved to Five, ITV had stockpiled episodes to go up against her new show.

I think a revamped The Time The Place could do well now with so many topics around and the rise of social media it could bring a whole different perspective involving the audience they are aiming to reach

Well, that's true enough - it kept on running after the ITV Day branding came in which was supposed to herald a big relaunch of the whole thing. And it also meant for the first few weeks on C5 Trisha was on in the afternoons, before moving to mornings when ITV finally ran out. But it was quite abrupt in that it wasn't ITV's choice to drop it, I think her move to C5 took them a bit by surprise.

As always, I must remind everyone of the brilliant ITV daytime revamp in March 2000 when they moved Trisha to 2pm, Jerry Springer to 9.25 and Loose Women to 10am, and then three weeks later, moved them all back to their old slots again.



Yes, in his book about the Beeb, Will Wyatt talks about Kilroy arranging a meeting with him just after he quit as an MP to try and interest him in some documentaries, and Wyatt saying that they'd take ages to make and if he wanted to make a living from telly he should do something where he'd be on all the time, and that they were doing pilots for a new daytime discussion show if he wanted to try for that. And the rest is history.

Amazing how long it carried on, outliving every other daytime show from the original line-up, and presumably it would have continued had Kilroy not had to, cough, "go away". And of course when it ended the ratings shot up.

Who would present it? TTTP had several presenters over the years, of course, but ultimately Staples made the show his own.

Isn’t it basically Sunday Morning Live, Jeremy Vine, various discussions they have on Victoria Derbyshire.

Not all the debates were highbrow either, remember when Harry Hill used to clip up Kilroy’s intros on TV Burp, plus TTTP once did a discussion about fashion which didn’t seem highbrow, although it was definitely not the place to have a discussion about racism.

I had remembered Kilroy as being more topical than that, but turns out it was just like the Kyle of it's day. Was this towards the end of its run when the topics were running out?

I remember Kilroy being the Daily Mail on TV of it's day. If they didn't do relationship issues, it was the usual stuff to stir up the masses.

You think Oneness is a great ident and you hate the balloon.

(Sorry I just need to make that joke)

Of course, Scott had been an exec at Granada for several years before he packed it in to go back to presenting. I remember reading he had to give up The Time The Place because he'd gone totally deaf.